👋 Hi, I’m Kate. I am a human being, just like you. And more than anything, that is what this space is about — being, exploring, and reclaiming what it means to be fully human — together.
Although professionally I am a public health strategist at The Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and most people know me from my mental health advocacy, TEDx talk, and social media pages — Kate Speer and Wafflenugget — I don’t think of myself that way.
I think of myself as a messy human who is just trying to get out of bed and actually live a full life with mental illness.
More than that, and maybe most of all, I think of myself as a human who is determined to live well — to find herself, joy, meaning, and connection — while navigating mental illness by redefining what that means.
In this project, I embark on that adventure. I examine the human condition and humans’ conditioning. I share deeply honest stories from my lived experiences with mental illness, write the beauty that is the unabashed t…
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